Research published in Personality and Individual Differences

Dispositional mindfulness as moderator between Big Five personality traits and social media addiction

Personality and Individual Differences September 10, 2026 Soufiane Mouatassim, Stacey Callahan, J. F. Chassagne

We analyzed the associations between dispositional mindfulness, the Big Five personality traits, and social media addiction, while investigating whether dispositional mindfulness acts as a moderator in these relationships. The research sample comprised 692 nonclinical French young adults (18–30 years old). The following measurement tools were used: the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire-Short...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2026.114083

A latent profile analysis of the Big Five personality and mindfulness traits in the general population

Personality and Individual Differences May 26, 2025 Sarah Strohmaier, Oleg N. Medvedev 3 citations

Understanding how personality and mindfulness traits influence responses to health and wellbeing interventions is important for improving their effectiveness, in particular since there is likely not a one-size-fits-all approach for mindfulness. While various interventions show overall benefits, individual differences likely determine optimal intervention types and doses. A multinational sample...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113287 Mindfulness Personality Population Clinical psychology +1

Social Support and Psychological Distress among Chronic Pain Patients: The Mediating Role of Mindfulness.

Personality and Individual Differences February 4, 2022 Jenna M Wilson, Carin A Colebaugh, K Mikayla Flowers et al.

Although an inverse relation between social support and psychological distress among chronic pain patients has been previously reported, little is known about what mediates this association. We examined mindfulness as a mediator of the relationship between social support and psychological distress. In this cross-sectional study, chronic pain patients (N=94) completed assessments of social...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111551 Full text Depression Anxiety Mindfulness Chronic pain +2

Mindfulness as a mediator in the relationship between social media engagement and depression in young adults

Personality and Individual Differences February 1, 2022 Amelia Jones, M. Hook, Purnaja Podduturi et al.

Abstract Social media engagement has been inconsistently linked to depression and it is important to determine whether specific motivations for engagement are linked to depression and what the mechanisms may be. This study investigated five factors of mindfulness as potential mediators between behavioral, affective, and cognitive social media engagement and depression. Participants (between 17...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111284

Why does one want to feel socially engaging emotions? The role of self-transcendence values on desired emotions among adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences February 1, 2022 Ping Liu, Shujin Zhou, Liyin Cui et al.

Abstract The value-based account of desired emotions proposed that values were related to desired emotions. However, it is unclear that whether the associations are applicable to adolescents. In study 1, adolescents rated their self-transcendence and self-enhancement values and corresponding desired emotions. In study 2, adolescents were divided into two groups based on the scores of the two...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111257

Mindfulness as an antidote to conspicuous consumption: The mediating roles of self-esteem, self-concept clarity and normative influence

Personality and Individual Differences August 24, 2021 Megha Bharti, Vivek Suneja, Mehak Bharti 34 citations

Extant research in consumer behaviour has demonstrated the pervasiveness of conspicuous consumption as a means of psychological salve from inner conflicts such as self-discrepancies with regard to one's status, abilities, power or self-esteem. In this paper we propose mindfulness as an antidote to conspicuous consumption behaviour. Using structural equation modelling and survey responses of 588...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111215

Mindfulness, self-compassion and wellbeing

Personality and Individual Differences 2021 Tegan McKay, Benjamin R. Walker

Abstract While other studies have examined the effect of mindfulness, self-compassion and wellbeing, further examination is needed regarding these constructs and in particular the relations between different wellbeing constructs. It was hypothesised that mindfulness and self-compassion would be positively related to wellbeing and wellbeing constructs would be positively associated. In a sample...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110412

Mindfulness and connectedness to nature: A meta-analytic investigation

Personality and Individual Differences June 1, 2018 N. Schutte, J. Malouff

Abstract The traits of mindfulness and connectedness to nature may have a reciprocal relationship. Mindfulness, which consists of non-evaluative awareness, may allow individuals to feel more connected to nature, and connection to natural environments may help foster mindfulness. A number of studies have investigated the association between trait mindfulness and connectedness with nature. The...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.01.034

Dispositional mindfulness moderates the relationship between depression and posttraumatic growth in Chinese adolescents following a tornado

Personality and Individual Differences June 1, 2018 Wei Xu, Xu Ding, P. Goh et al.

Abstract This study explored whether dispositional mindfulness moderated the relationship between depression and posttraumatic growth. A total of 435 Chinese adolescents who experienced a tornado in Yancheng city reported their level of depressive symptoms (The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children; CES-DC), posttraumatic growth (Posttraumatic Growth Inventory; PTGI)...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.01.032

Neuroticism is associated with challenging experiences with psilocybin mushrooms.

Personality and Individual Differences October 15, 2017 Frederick S. Barrett, Matthew W Johnson, Roland R. Griffiths 98 citations

Classic hallucinogens (e.g. psilocybin and LSD) have substantial effects on perception, cognition, and emotion that can often be psychologically challenging, however we know very little regarding the source of significant individual variability that has been observed in the frequency and intensity of challenging experiences (i.e. "bad trips") with psychedelics. Previous clinical and...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.004 Full text Bad trips Challenging experiences Individual differences Neuroticism +1

Self-interest may not be entirely in the interest of the self: Association between selflessness, dispositional mindfulness and psychological well-being.

Personality and Individual Differences June 8, 2017 Adam W. Hanley, Anne Baker, Eric L Garland

The association between mindfulness and selflessness is firmly grounded in classical Indo-Sino-Tibetan contemplative traditions, but has received limited empirical attention from Western researchers. In Buddhism, the relationship between mindfulness and the self is of central concern to the cultivation of well-being. Mindfulness is believed to encourage insight into the truly insubstantial...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.045 Full text Well-being Dispositional mindfulness Selflessness

The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS): A process measure for evaluating mindfulness-based interventions.

Personality and Individual Differences April 1, 2016 Michael J Li, David S Black, Eric L Garland

Objective: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) include the application of meditation and mind-body practices used to promote mindful awareness in daily life. Operationalizing the construct of mindfulness is important in order to determine mechanisms of therapeutic change elicited by mindfulness practice. In addition to existing state and trait measures of mindfulness, process measures are...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.027 Full text Meditation Scale Validation Coping +3

From a state to a trait: Trajectories of state mindfulness in meditation during intervention predict changes in trait mindfulness

Personality and Individual Differences July 1, 2015 Laura G. Kiken, E. Garland, Karen Bluth et al.

Theory suggests that heightening state mindfulness in meditation practice over time increases trait mindfulness, which benefits psychological health. We prospectively examined individual trajectories of state mindfulness in meditation during a mindfulness-based intervention in relation to changes in trait mindfulness and psychological distress. Each week during the eight-week intervention,...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.044 Full text

Dispositional Mindfulness Co-varies with Self-Reported Positive Reappraisal.

Personality and Individual Differences August 1, 2014 Adam W. Hanley, Eric L Garland

Emerging research suggests that mindfulness is associated with positive reappraisal and that mindfulness practice may be a means of encouraging positive reappraisal capacities. These findings, linking mindfulness with the promotion of cognitive coping strategies, challenge traditional Western conceptualizations of mindfulness as non-discursive. This study explored the relationship between...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.03.014 Full text

Dispositional mindfulness moderates the relation between neuroticism and depressive symptoms

Personality and Individual Differences September 16, 2011 Thorsten Barnhofer, Danielle S. Duggan, James William Griffith 150 citations

Negative emotional reactivity as measured by neuroticism has been shown to be an important risk factor for the development of depressive symptoms. This study investigated whether the ability to be mindful can protect against the negative effects of this temperamental vulnerability. An English community sample of N = 144 individuals who had completed a neuroticism questionnaire six years...

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.032

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